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...will point to shows like “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scrubs,” and to them, I will simply say that the former is a chick drama with a little scalpel and the latter is all comedy with a bit of depressing death irony provided by Zach Braff. “House” knowingly advertises itself as neither of these things despite having some of both, and instead focuses on the pop medicine lightness of an everyone-gets-a-cure world.The success of “House?...
...times. You have strings of excellent songs?, like “Believe” and “Shaka” at the end of the album. Other times, you have songs like “Official” and “You” that are a bit too undistinguished. On the latter, the jazzy grooves sound a bit too familiar and a bit too mundane. Often, Q-Tip can compensate for his less-stellar beats with great rhymes, but that isn’t always the case. However, there are enough great songs...
...it’s scary that it’s funny.RR: Are you worried that the audience will start to sympathize and that you’ll unleash a new wave of assassinations?SLL: The play makes you see these people as human. The audience will leave seeing a bit of humanity in them.RR: Do you have any advice for President-elect Barack Obama’s bodyguards so that the plot of assassinations ends here?SLL: I hope it does, or they’d have to rewrite the play. Avoid crazy people is a good start.RR: Have...
...Starting in the 1990s, average Americans began deciding that the conservative economic agenda was a bit like the liberal cultural agenda of the 1960s: less liberating than frightening. When the Gingrich Republicans tried to slash Medicare, the public turned on them en masse. A decade later, when George W. Bush tried to partially privatize Social Security, Americans rebelled once again. In 2005 a Pew Research Center survey identified a new group of voters that it called "pro-government conservatives." They were culturally conservative and hawkish on foreign policy, and they overwhelmingly supported Bush in 2004. But by large majorities, they...
...distance between those two Grant Park scenes says a lot about how American liberalism fell, and why in the Obama era it could become - once again - America's ruling creed. The coalition that carried Obama to victory is every bit as sturdy as America's last two dominant political coalitions: the ones that elected Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. And the Obama majority is sturdy for one overriding reason: liberalism, which average Americans once associated with upheaval, now promises stability instead...